I couldn't help but wonder if that was what love was -- believing that someone was going to come through, in the end, and that it would still count

There are different ways to be confused about how someone's disappointed you. Some lie about the future because they wanted to forget the past. But some will lie about the past because they think it will give you both a future.

You can't finish the things you weren't supposed to start.

We have to figure out how to let go, and forgive. This is our job.

We loved each other in the same difficult, unusable way where you took turns doing it, instead of ever managing to do it at the same time.

Sometimes you don't know it. What you have been waiting your whole life for. You don't know until it is happening.

Josh had told me a long time ago that he had this theory that an entire relationship was based on what occurred over the course of the first five minutes you know each other. That everything that came after those first minutes was just details being filled in. Meaning: you already knew how deep the love was, how instinctually you felt about someone. What happened in their first five minutes? Time stopped.